For decades, governments have added fluoride to drinking water to protect teeth. But science is never that simple.

After a single, one-sided meeting this week on the question of whether to remove fluoride from the county’s drinking water, ...

Systematic review finds that while low-dose fluoride has little effect on gut microbiota, high doses disrupt microbial ...

Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity ...

WHAT COMPANIES MAKE FLUORIDE? Fluorosilicic acid is the compound most widely used in water systems as it yields free fluoride rapidly when mixed with water. J.R. Simplot and Nutrien's PCS ...

Do You Need Fluoride Treatment After a Teeth Cleaning? Dental Experts Weigh In When Tristen Boyer recently had a couple of cavities filled, her dentist suggested she get fluoride treatment afterward.

Skepticism about putting fluoride in drinking water has been around for a long time. Some of it is based on evidence and some on conspiracy theories. One of the most prominent critics is Robert F.

Florida's surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo has recommended making the state fluoride-free, and he has gone so far as to deem fluoride in drinking water "public health malpractice." Ladapo ...

Fluoride didn’t make much of a splash in the public eye when fluoridation trials began in 1945. The first run only reached about 232,000 Americans at the time. Nearly a decade later, the number ...